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The Night I Met Father Christmas
by Ben Miller
Jackson has so many questions about Father Christmas - where did he come from? How does he get around the world in one night? How can he manage to carry all of those presents? He decides he’s going to wait up for Father Christmas tonight and ask him himself! Upon finding Santa in his living room with a twisted ankle Jackson sits him down and asks how it all started. We’re swept away to the North Pole with the story of Torvil Christmas, the mean toymaker and how his story begins the story of Father Christmas.
I cannot express how much I loved this book. It is A Christmas Carol but in place of Ebenezer Scrooge our main character Torvil Christmas. As we fly through the sky with Jackson, Father Christmas and sassy Rudolph, we are taken back in time to Torvil’s life as the North Pole’s only toymaker - a selfish, uncaring elf who takes advantage of his neighbours to make himself a profit as Christmas knowing they have nowhere else to go. Torvil meets a Copper Elf, much more magical than a normal elf, who gifts him a coin leading him to be visited by Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, the Christmas tree and the Snowman, who, between them, take them back to his past, enlighten him to his present and show him his future. It’s such a magical tale and a book I would highly recommend for your children leading up to Christmas. Filled with such fun characters and magic it’s a perfect substitute for Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for little ones. I devoured this book in one sitting and has definitely got me feeling much more festive!
I cannot express how much I loved this book. It is A Christmas Carol but in place of Ebenezer Scrooge our main character Torvil Christmas. As we fly through the sky with Jackson, Father Christmas and sassy Rudolph, we are taken back in time to Torvil’s life as the North Pole’s only toymaker - a selfish, uncaring elf who takes advantage of his neighbours to make himself a profit as Christmas knowing they have nowhere else to go. Torvil meets a Copper Elf, much more magical than a normal elf, who gifts him a coin leading him to be visited by Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, the Christmas tree and the Snowman, who, between them, take them back to his past, enlighten him to his present and show him his future. It’s such a magical tale and a book I would highly recommend for your children leading up to Christmas. Filled with such fun characters and magic it’s a perfect substitute for Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for little ones. I devoured this book in one sitting and has definitely got me feeling much more festive!